(Photo) Training of Rwanda’s next-generation entrepreneurs  (2019.08.14~23)

The efforts of Handong Global University (President Soon-Heung Chang) in assisting universities from developing countries have in the past 4 days been introduced on the UN Public Affairs Academic Impact News under the title of “Handong Global University hosts twelve entrepreneurship training programmes in 2019”.

The UN Public Affairs Academic Affairs News highlights Handong Global University’s significant influence in the growth and development of developing countries through the implementation of the UNESCO UNITWIN program’s educational ODA.

(Photo) Training of Papua New Guinea entrepreneurs (2019.07.01~05)

The UN Public Affairs Academic Impact News article explained regarding HGU’s UNESCO UNITWIN efforts saying, “From January to August in 2019, 12 entrepreneurship training programmes were held in Chad, Uganda, Ghana, Cameroon, Papua New Guinea and Rwanda. In total, 15 professors, 3 coordinators and 41 volunteer students from HGU participated in the entrepreneurship training programs with 798 graduates from 8 countries in 2019.”

(Photo) Training of Ghana’s international entrepreneurs (2019.01.28~02.02)

UN Public Affairs Academic Impact News further elaborated on how Handong Global University’s entrepreneurial training was adjusted to meet the needs of its participants based on age and national characteristics. According to the news, Handong Global University held an Appropriate Technology-based Entrepreneurship Training (ATET) program in Chad were attendees were invited to a briefing about the history of, and life in Chad before delving into lectures such as Design Thinking & Business Idea Development and Worldview & Entrepreneurship. Additionally, in several programmes, like Global Entrepreneurship Training (GET) and Junior Entrepreneurship Training (JET) in Ghana, participants were provided with an opportunity to put their knowledge to the test by participating in a business plan competition at the conclusion of their training. The UN Public Affairs Academic Impact News also conveyed about how attendees of the Entrepreneurship Training in Papua New Guinea (ETP) examined a case study of entrepreneurship in Korea before covering marketing and finance topics.

(Photo) Training of Chad entrepreneurs regarding appropriate technology

Recently in Rwanda, Handong Global University held a “Next Generation Entrepreneurship Training program which aimed to help attendees, made up of 226 IPRC Gishari professors and University of Rwanda graduate students, recognize that they themselves are the means for  economic development.

As the first university to be designated as a UNESCO UNITWIN host-university in 2007, Handong Global University also become the first Korean university to become an internship pattern with the OECD in 2008. Handong was designated as a UN NGO in 2016, and as a university with an UN Depository Library, Handong has actively pursued to achieve the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs). Furthermore, Handong Global University in 2011 was the only Korean university to actively participate in UN Academic Impact (UNAI), a program initiated under Ban Ki-moon, the 8th Secretary-General of the UN, and became designated as one of ten universities amongst the 1,200 UNAI member universities around the world to be an UNAI hub university.

Move forward, Handong Global University continues to plan for the hosting of entrepreneurial training programs aiming to develop an education process for entrepreneurs and bolstering of higher education potential in developing countries as well as strengthen cooperation with developing countries for the fostering of future leaders, etc.

UN Academic Impact News link:

https://academicimpact.un.org/content/handong-global-university-hosts-twelve-entrepreneurship-training-programmes-2019?mc_cid=5b034b9c91&mc_eid=5b8366515b

* UNITWIN, University Twinning and Networking is a program created by UNESCO in 1992 for the purpose of educating developing nation’s universities, supporting their research institutes, reducing gaps in knowledge, and growing their ability for self-reliance through a network of universities from developed and developing nations. Handong Global University in 2007 became the first to be designated as a host university of UNITWIN.

*The Handong Global University-UNITWIN service, which is part of the Ministry of Education’s ODA service, by concluding agreements with universities from developing countries that are categorized by the World Bank as low-income countries and are the Korean government’s key-cooperating partners, has pursued the strengthening of the universities’ potential, fostering of leaders, local development, etc. and constructed local base centers within the developing countries. Handong Global University is currently supporting 62 universities and 16 institutions in 30 countries (as of Dec. 2018).

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